Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hockey fans, like the game they yell at, are not polite. All season in Toronto, they had grumbled about mild-mannered Harry Watson. He seemed backward about parting the enemy's hair with his hockey stick. He was too gentlemanly-a bad thing in present-day hockey, and especially during the Stanley Cup playoffs, when the players are tearing one another limb from limb. Last week in Boston Garden, Harry squared himself with Toronto fans, anyway. With seven or eight piston-like punches, he broke the nose of Boston Bruins Murray Henderson...
...brainy centers (the quarterbacks of hockey). One is Syl Apps, 34, who once thought of becoming a clergyman. This season, afraid that Apps was slowing down, the Leafs traded five good men to the Chicago Black Hawks for pint-sized (150 Ibs.) Max Bentley, one of the most skilled stick-handlers in the game. But Apps, the playmaker, could still show dazzling speed in short bursts; and the Leafs had Bentley, too, and a young bulldog-type center called Teeder Kennedy...
...pitchers, relies on a rich assortment of what baseballers call "stuff." He throws six types of pitches (fast ball, curve, slider, knuckler, sinker and screw ball). Says he: "Sometimes early in a game, some of them aren't working so well. So I drop the bad ones and stick with the ones that will do me the most good." All of them were working against the Yankees that...
Suddenly Moher prodded Abbott in the ribs with the butt end of his stick. Abbott dropped his stick to punch Moher. Moher knocked him down with the stick, hammered him. With a riot in the making, Coach Chase refused to continue! the game. It took 26 stitches to close a wound in Abbott's cheek. Said Chase: "If it had been on a street corner, it would have been criminal." In collegiate circles these days, it was just hockey, new style...
...teams in Southern lacrosse. Last year's Crimson team matched Maryland in everything but passing around the goal mouth, and the Terrapins walked off with a 15-2 decision. The squad's experience at College Point merely pointed up the fact that Maryland has the slickest stick-handlers in college lacrosse...